Tigers announce Hoops for Hygiene

The Edwardsville Tiger boys’ basketball team is tipping off the 2009-10 season with a “Hoops for Hygiene” collection to benefit the Glen-Ed Pantry and the Children’s Museum in Edwardsville.

The Tigers will collect personal hygiene items in lieu of the cost of admission to their annual preseason Sixth Man Scrimmage event, Nov. 25 at Lucco-Jackson Gymnasium. Those items include full sized shampoo, soap, deodorant, feminine hygiene items, four-pack toilet tissue and disinfecting wipes. The regular $3 adult, $1 children admission collected at the event will also be donated to those organizations.

“Thanksgiving is a good time for the boys in our program to show their gratitude to the community that supports them,” said Mike Waldo, EHS head coach. “We know that personal hygiene items are often in short supply and are much-needed by the folks in our community that are served by the Glen-Ed Pantry. We hope our efforts can help with their supplies and raise some awareness.”

In addition, the Tigers are donating disinfecting wipes to the Children’s Museum in Edwardsville to help the facility stay germ-free through the flu season.

The annual Sixth Man Scrimmage is the night before Thanksgiving and is the public’s first chance to see the Tigers in action. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with the Liberty and Lincoln Middle School seventh grade teams facing off at 6 p.m. That’s followed by scrimmages with the eighth grade teams and freshman team before the junior varsity-varsity scrimmage at 7:30 p.m. Two-dollar hamburger and hotdog meal deals will be provided along with concessions.